As her new exhibition opens in London, British artist Somaya Critchlow discusses her politically-charged paintings, the lack of nude Black women in art history, and her primary influences 🖤
12 of Critchlow’s new paintings and drawings are now on display at Maximillian William gallery in London, in an exhibition called. A sense of the macabre lingers across these new works, in which Black women are depicted revelling in their solitude – nude, semi-nude or in costume – backdropped by dimly-lit, domestic interiors.
Critchlow’s paintings are often interpreted as making political statements about the roles and identities of Black women. “I think I end up reading a lot of books on politics, whether its sex politics, gender politics, race politics or war politics,” says Critchlow, but she makes it clear that her paintings are “not pushing any sort of political message.”
The political nature of her work, as she explains, is because being a Black woman painting Black women, “whether I like it or not, is politically charged.”© Somaya Critchlow. Image courtesy the artist and Maximillian William, London. Photography: PrudenceCritchlow had a love of painting in her childhood, which began while her mother was a student at art school.
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